Behind Convent Walls
Behind Convent Walls is a 1978 film from Italy, directed by Walerian Borowczyk, running 95 minutes. reelscum files it under nunsploitation.
- Year
- 1978 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Director
- Walerian Borowczyk
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (47/100)
- Also known as
- Behind Convent Walls
Defined in the glossary: Nunsploitation
Borowczyk brings his erotic art-house eye to the convent. Beautiful, explicit and barely plotted.
Walerian Borowczyk, the Polish master of erotic art cinema, applies his painterly eye to a Renaissance convent full of sexually frustrated nuns, drawing loosely on Stendhal. It is more concerned with composition and atmosphere than plot, a series of beautifully shot erotic vignettes behind the cloister walls.
It sits at the art-house end of nunsploitation, closer to Borowczyk's Immoral Tales than to the Italian sleaze cycle, and its craft is undeniable even when its narrative is not. For viewers interested in the subgenre's more aesthetically serious wing, it is essential.
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